NANCY CARR * I’ve been listening to “On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2″ pretty continuously the past few days, and it’s great fun (unsurprisingly, for anyone who’s heard volume 1). Of particular note is the astounding clarity of the sound. The warmth and immediacy of the recordings is a large part of what makes […]

DEVIN McKINNEY • What a bounty this autumn brings us. In addition to the long (as in loooong) awaited first volume of the Lewisohn biography (the multiple iterations of which will blanket like sweet snow our Fall and Winter); Kevin Howlett’s The Beatles: BBC Archives 1962 to 1970, which looks indispensable for the cover alone; […]